NeoMag Review: Securing A Pocket Full Of Awesome

Some­times I’m a lit­tle late to the game. I start­ed see­ing a trend on Insta­gram of this cool lit­tle giz­mo called the Neo­Mag a while back but nev­er real­ly paid that much atten­tion to it because, for the most part, there was a whole bunch of awe­some going on in each pho­to.

But then one day it just jumped out at me, glar­ing out of the pic­ture like it was scream­ing “I am the best damn thing in this pic­ture and you don’t know about me yet!”. So I had to look it up.

I did my nor­mal Google Fu and read and watched all I could about it. I con­tact­ed Neo­Mag through their web site and end­ed up email­ing back and forth with Graig Davis, the own­er and inven­tor of The Neo­Mag. Turns out he is in Akron, Ohio about 10 min­utes from where I grew up. On a per­son­al side it is great to see unique com­pa­nies like his pop­ping up in what was once a hub of world­wide indus­try. Remem­ber tires? Yeah, that Akron, Ohio.

After email­ing with Graig I decid­ed the The Neo­Mag was some­thing I had to try out for myself. So I pur­chased the medi­um size (The Neo­Mag offers three sizes Small, Medi­um and Large — no fries) which would fit the 9mm Glock 19 mag­a­zines I car­ry on a dai­ly basis.

The three sizes gen­er­al­ly fit as fol­lows: Large .45 ACP& Wil­son Com­bat 9mm Mags, Medi­um 9mm & .40 S&W and Small .380 ACP, although there are a few odd­ball mag­a­zines which you can learn more about by vis­it­ing The Neo­Mag web site.

Graig is an engi­neer who designed the Neo­Mag to fit into his lifestyle. From his web site you can learn more about him, but I’ll include his own words here, because I’m look­ing out for ya:

Graig Davis, engi­neer and inven­tor of The Neo­Mag

I am a hus­band of a beau­ti­ful wife and father of three awe­some kids. I spend days as a full time engi­neer. I’m an avid hunter, moun­tain bik­er, pho­tog­ra­ph­er, love all shoot­ing sports, archery and involved with my home church.

As an avid sec­ond amend­ment sup­port­er and con­cealed car­ry advo­cate I want­ed the best way to car­ry a back­up mag­a­zine. I engi­neered the Neo­Mag™ to use the best mate­ri­als in the most min­i­mal pack­age pos­si­ble. The Neo­Mag™ is com­plete­ly made and assem­bled here in the USA. My goal is to pro­vide you the best prod­uct and cus­tomer ser­vice pos­si­ble.

From my test­ing so far, I can say this unequiv­o­cal­ly. This thing is tough. Very, very tough. Because I don’t just buy things to have them, I tend to abuse them to see if they can hold up, I can state in fact, I haven’t been able to hurt the thing yet. I’ve thrown it at a cement wall, got a lit­tle scratch, dropped it off my bal­cony with and emp­ty mag­a­zine attached, no issues, been wear­ing it reli­gious­ly since I received it while work­ing out­side all day in the salt air down here, not a speck of rust seen. I haven’t fall­en on it, more out of the desire for self preser­va­tion of my hip, but I think it would do fine with that too.

What you get is the Neo­Mag in some min­i­mal pack­ag­ing, thank you Graig for that. Side note, I hate over­ly pack­aged things. It is a waste to do so.

Inside a clear instruc­tions, a stick­er and infos about the Neo­Mag. That is all that is need­ed.

It real­ly is about a small and a clean as you could want or imag­ine. Also, did I men­tion it is tough? The tita­ni­um clip has tremen­dous reten­tion. It is very stiff and along with the grip pad it stays put in your pock­et. It isn’t so hard to move that you have trou­ble get­ting it to slide over you pock­et mate­r­i­al, but once in place it holds where you put it.

The deep pock­et clip is just that. It extends far enough above the top of the mag­a­zine floor plate that the mag dis­ap­pears inside your pock­et mak­ing it a lot less con­spic­u­ous than some sim­i­lar prod­ucts. It isn’t to far down though that you can’t get a good quick grip on it for a quick mag change when need­ed.

Watch Graig’s video below to get an idea of why he designed it the way he did.

I am using the Neo­Mag on my Glock 19 mag­a­zines from Project Glock. With the stan­dard Glock floor plates it is a per­fect fit. See here below:

I do run two mag­a­zines with Strike Indus­tries Buf­fa­lo Wings and while the Neo­Mag will still do exact­ly what it is sup­pose to, you just need to allow it to ride a lit­tle low­er on the mag­a­zine which in turn allows the mag­a­zine to ride a lit­tle high­er in your pock­et.

The Neo­Mag on a Glock 19 mag­a­zine with Strike Indus­tries Buf­fa­lo Wings attached.

Over­all first impres­sions of The Neo­Mag are awe­some. For some­thing this small, it adds tremen­dous func­tion­al val­ue to your EDC. Con­struc­tion is top-notch, mate­ri­als are well thought out and planned for a long life of the prod­uct. This is not some­thing that is dis­pos­able like so many of the prod­ucts we all buy today. I expect to be replac­ing bar­rels before I need to replace The Neo­Mag.

We are in fact cre­at­ing a new cat­e­go­ry for the reviews sec­tion after test­ing The Neo­Mag and call­ing it ‘Life­time Prod­ucts’. That is exact­ly how long we feel the Neo­Mag is going to last. Graig and Neo­Mag should be proud to have the very first prod­uct induct­ed into a cat­e­go­ry they forced us to cre­ate by offer­ing such a top notch bit of gear.

I’ll be shoot­ing video through­out the month for a good long-run video review and will post that after I have had a good amount of time using The Neo­Mag on a dai­ly basis.

Some of you might ques­tion about keep­ing a loaded mag­a­zine in your pock­et, will it get in the way? Well, if you have ever car­ried a knife in your pock­et, this real­ly isn’t much dif­fer­ent from that. Sure the depth is a lit­tle greater, but it is rough­ly the same amount of room being used by a knife, espe­cial­ly if you have ever car­ried one of the big­ger Bench­made HK autos. We have a cheap auto and an Ontario RAT 1 to show you a size com­par­i­son:

The Neo­Mag com­pared to com­mon car­ry knives. Rough­ly the same size.

Being designed, pro­duced and sourced from mate­ri­als all in the USA, The Neo­Mag is a def­i­nite win in my book. I will be buy­ing more and don’t be sur­prised if we end up giv­ing a few of these suck­ers away in the future as part of our ongo­ing month­ly give­aways. They are some­thing that Reload­One will proud­ly rec­om­mend to any­one who is seri­ous about their EDC and the gear they use.

Vis­it The Neo­Mag today to learn even more about Graig, the com­pa­ny and this insane­ly awe­some piece of gear.